期刊
JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS
卷 56, 期 24, 页码 1625-1635出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/polb.24753
关键词
fuel cell; molecular dynamics simulations; proton conductivity; sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone) membrane
资金
- Thailand Research Fund (TRF) through the Royal Golden Jubilee Ph.D. Program [PHD/0072/2556, 3.C.CM/56/P.1.N.XX]
- Center of Excellence for Innovation in Analytical Science
- Graduate School, Chiang Mai University
Proton transport is one of crucial phenomena in electrolytic part highly considered to overcome a limit in fuel cell efficiency improvement. Proton conducting organic electrolyte was modeled and simulated at atomistic level of calculation by doping of butyl urocanate (C4U), a composite material with imidazole substructure, with sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone) (SPEEK) amorphous membrane at various working temperature. Molecular dynamics simulations were used to investigate structural and dynamics characteristic of C4U in the membrane comparing with the SPEEK-hydronium membrane model as a control. From simulations, thermal effect on water and proton carriers cluster surrounding the sulfonate groups was explored. At higher temperature, the more transport dynamics of C4U ions in SPEEK membranes were found than that of hydronium ions in the control system. Likewise, phase separation of hydrophobic and hydrophilic parts was taken into consideration here. A critical role of the enhancing proton conductivity by increasing the diffusion coefficient at temperature beyond C4U melting point in composite polymer membrane was emphasized. (c) 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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